Looking Closely at Water Revitalization, III
In continuing our extended look at water revitalization, it is the second sentence of Johann Grander’s description of this process (below) that I would like to explore.
“As a result of the many and various harmful influences, water today has lost its original purity. Through water animation it is restored all the original information it needs to reconstruct its self-cleaning power and to get rid of the non-participating substances. This is an intense process, which, of course, takes its time. Nevertheless, in most cases, a certain change in taste and partly also in structure will be noticed immediately.
“Every further change to the positive depends on the initial quality of the water and on the degree of damage. It is impossible to convert damaged water into pure spring water from one minute to the next. The most important thing is to donate life to the water, so that it can again build up its own energetic power and consequently, it is enabled to fulfill its essential protective function.”
This one sentence contains several important ideas: first, that the information properties transmitted to a water system during the revitalization process act as a catalyst to produce a beneficial change in the dynamics of the system; second, that one result of this process is the renewal of water’s own “self-cleaning power”; and third, that “non-participating substances” are ultimately removed.
These ideas all work together, and taken as a whole they remind me of the Chinese proverb: ”Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.” Grander Technology, because of the self-sustaining processes which it stimulates in a water system, is a technology in accord with the second half of the proverb. It produces long-term benefits which place water in a far better position to renew and maintain its optimal properties.
As an example, consider a pond that has problems with high algae loading. While chemical and electromagnetic technologies exist to physically prevent the algae from growing, the solution that Grander Technology provides is much different in character. By stimulating improvements in the microbiological ecology of the entire pond system and enhancing the transport and availability of oxygen and nutrients in the system, the effects of treatment lead to a pond with reduced algae loading due to the water’s own response. This type of response is self-regulating, long-ranging, and ultimately more beneficial to the environment because it results in a steady reduction of nutrient loading. Thus, through the response of the water system, the cause itself is addressed, rather than just the symptoms.
The foundation of this process, according to Johann Grander, is the information that is transferred to the water system. The physical changes in the water that occur during the revitalization process are described as information because they cause a change in the behavior of the overall system. I think it would be beneficial to look at water as an energetic process, first and foremost, in order to better understand the role of revitalization in causing beneficial transformations in the dynamics of the overall water system (meaning water, dissolved gases, other solutes, and living microorganisms).
This viewpoint of natural phenomena in general is not a new one. Consider the following:
“The visible world is the invisible organization of energy.” Physicist Heinz Pagels
“Everything that appears in Nature and is perceptible to our eyes and senses, is the waste product of subtle, exalted energies.” Austrian Naturalist Viktor Schauberger
I think it is more appropriate to look at water revitalization as a re-ordering or re-structuring of the inner energetic processes that are always at work within water, then to view it as simply an outward change in orientation of physical components. These outward changes indeed occur, as Johann Grander himself notes that “a certain change in taste and partly also in structure will be noticed immediately,” but more importantly it is the inner energetic processes that have been improved. Johann Grander calls these changes “information”, because they literally inform the outward structure of the water system that we can see, taste, and experience. The water’s self-cleaning abilities are one such outward result.
This self-cleaning power is largely the result of improved activity of the microorganisms within the water, which metabolize wastes and ultimately “clean” up the water system. These tiny powerhouses of the natural world are sensitive to the change in information described above, and to the resulting changes in the water’s dynamics which surround them. Their enhanced activity results in a more active “immune system” within the water, which reduces nutrients more rapidly and creates conditions that are less favorable to the long-term viability of pathogens.
The relationship between the subtle internal energetic dynamics of water and the microorganisms within it is a topic of increasing research. The quote below is from Israeli physicist Eshel Ben-Jacob, taken from the movie “What We Know is a Drop” (available for on-line viewing at our web-site).
“If it is true that water has a memory, the fact that we are so uncareful about the treatment of water can cause the water that we have to eventually become nonsuitable or stressful to organic systems. I don’t want to sound as someone who brings a message now of a disaster, but it can happen. [The water] will not be [chemically] poisonous, will not have minerals that exceed the regulations, but it will be undrinkable in the sense that drinking this water will cause us some damage, or will weaken our system as a whole. And more importantly, if we treat the water this way, the bacteria that we cannot live without might go through dramatic changes and will not be able to function in supporting the environment that we see around us.”
A final aspect of water revitalization that ties in with the processes described above is the getting rid of “non-participating substances”. Unlike a filter which removes particles or selective materials from the water immediately, water revitalization again initiates a process which, given time, will naturally lead to a cleaner, healthier water system. If, as I have suggested, we look at water as an energetic process, then it makes more sense to think of pollutants as “non-participating substances”. These are simply materials which are not resonant with the water system’s natural and beneficial internal energetic processes.
Viktor Schauberger often wrote about the way that energetic processes in water, being rhythmical and reciprocal, result in the building up of ever-greater and more valuable stocks of high-grade energetic materials. The process Schauberger described could be imagined as one of taking simple elements and successively combining them to produce higher forms and combinations, each step of the way releasing and expelling energy and the “waste products” that we see. Matter is thus the detritus of this internal energetic dance.
In this model of water, ”non-participating substances” are those which are out of place, and do not participate in the internal metabolic dance at work within water. Instead, if not expelled or purified, they accumulate and impede these processes, resulting in a breakdown of internal quality. Revitalization, by renewing the water’s internal processes, supplies the necessary information or “strength” those processes may need to expel or breakdown and purify or re-enfold the non-participating substances.
Thus, the key to understanding water revitalization is to view it as a transformation in water’s internal energetic processes. This change is described by Johann Grander as a change in the information at work in the water system, which produces long-term benefits as the water system begins to re-exert its self-cleaning power. The initial benefits are immediate, and given time will continue to unfold.
© 2010, Michael Mark
